Sentence examples for badge of class from inspiring English sources

Radical social movements and workers' parties never took hold as in Europe because, hard as life might be, "worker" was a job description, not a badge of class, and everything could change.

Of a dining culture in which linens and petit fours are no longer nonnegotiable badges of class.

Besides the racism, or in tandem with it, there are the very distinct badges of class and upbringing that characterise British comedy, to which Blackwood in no way adheres.

"National service," he recorded, "made me turn to the working class as to a beautiful woman". The badge of working-class affiliation was his lifelong love of football (listed in Who's Who as his only recreation).

Without the clear badge of middle-class membership — a home mortgage — it is hard to say where a person fits on the class continuum.

In Rome this cap was a badge of the plebeian class; a slave being freed was presented with such a cap.

"And the fact that black people are routinely over-excused from that duty is just another very public, very significant badge of inferiority and second-class citizenship".

This itself is a Brooklyn characteristic: The borough is perhaps the most commonly self-referenced home town in America, a cultural badge of bluntness and middle-class pluck.

Being without a foreskin was said to boost hygiene, and became a badge of the educated and upper classes.

It is a badge of membership in the higher classes, an ideal example of what Thorstein Veblen, the great social critic of the Gilded Age, called conspicuous consumption.

It establishes a class-based badge of inferiority that infringes upon the personal dignity and liberty of gay men and lesbians and their families.